Friday, January 18, 2008

Collection of Active Open Source Projects for Health Care

Filed under: Informatics

Open source software has been extremely successful in various technology sectors but has been slow to grow in the health care industry. However, OSS serves a vital role by breeding innovation at a break neck pace. A new blog has a decent summary of active OSS programs for the health care market.

Available categories include:

Clinical Research

DICOM Tool

DICOM Viewer / Server

Electronic medical record

HL7 Tool

Practice / hospital management system

Standards

Also don't forget to check out Demonstrating Open-Source Healthcare Solutions (DOHCS) conference in Southern California this February. And if you're still reading this, email us for free tickets if you'd like to attend (medgadget *at* medgadget *dot* com). We have 5 easter eggs to give away to our readers.

(hat tip: LinuxMedNews)

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